Tinner Tidbit
Many of us have long suspected that the Tinner Family — Father Freidrich and brothers Marco and Urs — Swiss businessman who participated in the AQ Khan network — were also US intelligence assets (See Urs Tinner and Tinner Talks).…
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Gov/2010/10 and Gov/2010/11
Here is the full text of the IAEA Board of Governor’s reports: ℘ Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of…
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Report on French Nuclear Testing
Sacrebleu! I’ve never seen a classified French document before, but this one is a doozy. Bruno Barrillot —who I have just discovered has written a lot about French nuclear testing, how did I miss this? — somehow obtained, and published,…
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Egyptian Ballistic Missile Center
During my panel at the Wilson Center, David Albright told a story about how the Israelis talked to Gernot Zippe — inventor of the Zippe-centrifuge — about the contacts that some German scientists and firms had in Egypt. I wanted…
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Gibbs Might Want Iran Statement Back
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, in the midst of a perfectly acceptable statement of Administration policy, cast doubt on Iran’s ability to enrich uranium: MR. GIBBS: Well, look, I think Iran has made a series of statements that are…
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Iran as a Nuclear State
I see that some media outlets are latching on to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim that Iran is a “nuclear state” as though this is a profound bit of reading the tea leaves. A quick perusal of lexis-nexis suggests this is something…
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Iran Produces HEU
Iranian President Mohamed Ahmadinjed, aka A-Bomb, has announced that Iran has produced the first “consignment” of 20 percent highly enriched uranium (HEU). I don’t know what a consignment is, but I would think in this case, it is less than…
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Iran to Enrich 20 Percent LEU
Iran’s announcements that it is going to produce 20 percent Highly Enriched Uranium is bad news — not least because the Iranians said they would do so without respect to the presumably doomed TRR fuel swap. (Though this thing has…
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Seibersdorf!
Josh Pollack happened upon this amazing video of Safeguards Analytical Laboratory at Seibersdorf. Some briefs shots of what looks like Tuwaitha, Yongbyon (inside) and Pelindaba. Which got me thinking that the IAEA must have a spectacular video library. It turns…
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Yes, It's the Other Area
Oh, shut up already! Some enterprising Belgian military spokesperson has decided to announce to the entire world that of the two sets of 11 hardened shelters at Kleine Brogel Airbase, the activists were in the one without nuclear weapons: A…